Sussan Ley and David Littleproud have agreed that the Nationals will receive six shadow cabinet spots on a Coalition frontbench that is expected to see Ms Ley’s Liberal rival, Angus Taylor, receive the foreign affairs or defence portfolio.
Just days after announcing the Nationals were breaking up with the Liberal Party and laying bare deep tensions between the two, David Littleproud has made a bold prediction.
Just days after announcing the Nationals were breaking up with the Liberal Party and laying bare deep tensions between the two, David Littleproud has made a bold prediction.
Conservative Liberals are raising concern with what position Sussan Ley will assign Angus Taylor in her shadow ministry, describing the job of opposition energy minister as an unacceptable ‘demotion’ for the most senior conservative in the party.
Farmers and small businesses are likely to be the hardest hit by the proposed unrealised capital gains tax. Why then have the Liberals and Nationals run dead on the issue?
Until the Sussan Ley-led Liberal Party and the David Littleproud-led Nationals attempted a kiss-and-makeup pause, both parties were heading for a lose-lose outcome.
With the Nationals set to rejoin the Coalition, big questions remain about how both parties can shape policy jointly amid special-interest minor parties and independents. The vital ingredient is leadership.
Liberals have urged Sussan Ley against signing ‘blank cheque’ deals with the Nationals after agreeing in-principle to the junior party’s four policy demands ‘with caveats’ and giving her a green-light to resume negotiations with David Littleproud on re-forming the Coalition.
Two Romanian nationals have been arrested for their alleged roles in an ATM card-skimming scheme worth more than $800,000.
The Liberal Party room has given Sussan Ley the okay to re-enter negotiations with Nationals leader David Littleproud on reforming the coalition.
The Liberals have given Sussan Ley the authority to reform the Coalition with the Nationals amid David Littleproud’s four non-negotiable demands; In Bradfield, teal Nicolette Boele and Liberal Gisele Kapterian are dead level as a recount looks likely.
We need more historical humility as there’s no evidence yet that the significant failures of the woke Albanese Labor government won’t be repeated at scale, if there is no effective opposition
Nationals leader David Littleproud was in the middle of handing out ‘shadow’ portfolios to his country party MPs when Sussan Ley summoned him to her office to discuss a civil war truce.
David Littleproud, who likes to blame the ‘Canberra bubble’ for his mistakes, walks in the footsteps of legends like John McEwen, Doug Anthony, Tim Fischer and John Anderson. It is impossible to imagine his predecessors pulling the same clumsy stunt.
Nationals Senator Bridget McKenzie says Telstra’s coverage maps ‘aren’t worth the paper they’re written on’ and shows why the country needs guaranteed universal access to mobile phones.
David Littleproud has confirmed the Coalition could be getting back together just days after the Liberals and Nationals broke up.
Shareholders, management and directors of Woolworths and Coles need to understand why the first action of any future government involving the National Party will be to split up supermarkets.
Nationals leader David Littleproud has confirmed a morning meeting with Sussan Ley, during which the pair agreed to delay announcing their respective frontbench line-ups as talks to revive the Coalition continue.
Tensions still remain high after the Coalition split, with Nats leader David Littleproud denying that he blindsided Liberal counterpart Sussan Ley.
The Nationals have formally fled the field of battle, in a tantrum that means they now must rely on the generosity of Anthony Albanese to determine crucial matters of party status and funding.
It will now be much harder, near mission impossible, for the Liberals to win in 2028, given Sussan Ley’s declaration a coalition won’t be re-formed before the election.
A break may be beneficial in the short term, but it should be obvious to both the Liberals and the Nationals that neither will form government without the other.
Instead of focusing on personal issues, the Liberals and the Nationals should join together to run a co-ordinated campaign against the planned tax on unrealised gains.
It may be courageous for the National Party to go it alone while the Liberals set a new agenda for the way ahead. The doors of both parties are open for a possible reconciliation.
Sussan Ley and David Littleproud are on a collision course over divestiture and energy policy, three-cornered election contests that would benefit teal independents and Senate ballot fights that threaten the future of senior National Bridget McKenzie.
Anthony Albanese says it is not reasonable that Liberals and the Nationals MPs should be given the ‘reward’ of more advisers after the collapse of the Coalition.
Nationals leader David Littleproud says the Coalition’s failure to neuter Labor criticism of its planned tilt towards taxpayer-funded nuclear power led to electoral defeat.
David Littleproud is among senior Nationals MPs facing a very steep pay cut after the sensational collapse of the Coalition.
The clock is ticking for the Liberals and Nationals to make up, with an expert warning it could be fatal for the Coalition if its feud goes past a deadline.
David Littleproud is among senior Nationals MPs facing a very steep pay cut after the sensational collapse of the Coalition.
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